Call for articles No. 29 - Articles on free themes and for the Dossier "Russian and Soviet Cinema: from the Empire to the Present Day"

In addition to free-themed articles, which RUS receives in continuous flow,  Vol. 16 No. 29 will be open to articles, essays and translations related to Russian and Soviet cinema, until 09/30/2025.

On the eve of the 130th anniversary of the arrival of cinema in Russia, the dossier will discuss Russian and Russian-speaking cinematography from its genesis to the present day, based on a comprehensive perspective and attentive to less conventional approaches to Russian, pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet cinematography.

Since the imperial period, Russian and Russophone cinema underwent profound technological transformations and substantial changes in its language, mainly due to the aesthetic experiments and revolutionary theories of the early 20th century, as well as the founding of the world's first film school, the VGIK [the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography]. 

Far from being restricted to the productions of the first decades of the last century, Russian and Russophone film production is not characterized by any sort of homogeneity, be it aesthetic or stylistic, nor is it limited to a single film studio. To this day, it displays a significant diversity of styles and approaches. 

We invite researchers to contribute original studies and research that explore the following possible themes:

⁃ The history of Russian cinema: pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet

⁃ Film theory and the semiotics of culture

⁃ Soviet cinema after Stalin: critical reviews

⁃ Women in Russian cinema: on and behind the screen

⁃ Cinema, repression and exile

⁃ The queer lens in Russian and Russian-speaking cinema

⁃ Cinema on the border with video arts

⁃ Cinema and technological innovations

⁃ From the archives to the screen: the documentary under discussion

⁃ Decolonialisation in post-Soviet cinema

⁃ Contemporary Russian cinema

Submission of texts: until 09/30/25

Organizers: Erivoneide Barros and Neide Jallageas